Wanted to play Seleucids, but no goals.

Hello. This is a stand-alone mod so it doesn't require any other mods to play it.

Hello, what should I do to play it?

From what I understand, isn't 88 BC a touch too early for these events?

does this work with DEI

brilliant mod. anymore mods like this?

Can you make a mod reflecting the Mediterranean immediately after the death of Alexander the Great?

Anyone has the issue with the premature death of faction female members? The wife of my faction leaders keeps dying at a young age ( 25 )

A nice mod, though I would suggest that maybe Marius and Sulla get unique faction traits rather than copy-pasting those of Pompey's Rome and the Julii respectively, especially as they don't exactly fit their leaders to a T

Correction:

Having played the Sulla variation a few more times, the unified Gaul (Aquitania & Gallia) along with the Belgae are quite aggressive over time. They often do quite a number on the Germanic tribes, especially if Sulla takes it to Marius' holdings in Latium, Italia, Cisalpina and Sicily early.

Good mod, if you want make another mod i recommande for you : the Social War with the map Rise of the Republic, the social war is the socii vs roman with, in this period, the greatess general : Sertorius, Marius, Sulla, Caesar (the great-father), Pompeius Strabo...I think it will be a good mod because is a forgotten period just before the civil war between Marius and Sulla.

@Euro-Centric - if you have time in the next update, perhaps a little clean up on the Ptolemy Dynasty:

Dead Patriarch: Ptolemy VIII (DOB 184BC / DOD 116)

Sons:

Ptolemy IX Soter (DOB 142 / Current Pharaoh)
Ptolemy X Alexander (DOB 140 / DOD 88 - just dead at the end of civil war)

Ptolemy IX's Kids:

Ptolemy XII (DOB 117)
Ptolemy of Cyprus (DOB 116)
Berenice III (DOB 115)

Ptolemy X's Kids:

Ptolemy XI (DOB 105)
Cleopatra V (DOB 100)

It is of course quite messy in a very Ptolemy way. ;-)

I haven't played as Pharaoh, though it looks like a pretty standard Imperator Augustus Cleo campaign except for (i) not a client of Antonious, and (ii) stuck with a poor family tree where your "son" is the same age as you, and without the variety of sisters that are common in the Dynasty. This could be fixed by have "Ptolemy" be Ptolemy IX Soter, and mixing in the messy elements of the Dynasty that were alive in 88BC.

Seleucid is very much the rump end of that dynasty. I tend to enjoy playing Seleucid, and this one looks like a helluva challenge.

Armenia was one of the more fun campaigns, setting up a backstabbing of Pontus and Cap when Pontus' attention is elsewhere. You can even walk troops through Pontus to "help" with Sulla, only to have them positioned to attack Pontus from both ends and take Cap out at the same time. Critical thing is to have your trade and non-agressions treaties all around you already in hand before the heel turn.

Pontus is more of a challenge than one would think by simply looking at the map. The positive is a wonderful sprawling Empire with a large western foothold in Achaia, Macedonia and Thracia, all of Asia and Bithynia et Pontus, most of Galatia, and other bits and pieces. The problem is that all that territories are radically underdeveloped and Pontus is dirt poor at the start. Worse, Pontus has big food issues, with that poor bankroll making it hard to upgrade food production + upgrading to money making buildings + upgrading the armies to have a viable force to stand up to Sulla's high quality early game armies. He is just over the hills with three nearly full stacks (+ the cash to start recruiting a 4th) that can make mince meat of Mithridates two armies in the area. One needs to make quick, hard and realistic choices as Mithridates or the whole thing can crumble fast.

Sulla is considerably jacked up with starting forces and a massive war chest to make up for a negative income and a brutal starting position trapped between two enemies. It's not really comparable to the mess Antonious has to deal with in Imperator Augustus. It's perhaps closer to Sextus but with a massive war chest and better starting legions

Fun campaigns.

Marius' is a variation on Octavian campaign in Imperator Augustus with Euro-Centric's 2nd Triumvirate mod. No Gaul, but the addition of Africa offsets that. A unified Aquitania & Gallia doesn't seem to be as aggressive as unified Gallic nations of the Grand Campaign, and more passive similar to the standard Imperator Augustus version. If one uses a force to annex the balance of Tarraconensis, it's not a stretch to turn and supplement it to focus on annexing Aquitania & Gallia. There is just the person in the Marius family tree to give that assignment to. One has a bit of an option whether to bother with attacking Sulla early or simply consolidating/expanding in other areas while creating enough of a defensive position opposite Sulla to entice him into throwing his resources at Pontus.

Is this mod still being worked on?

A quick tip for any one else suffering wrong the same "problem" as I did... There is a separate "Marius vs Sulla" Campaign under the Grand Campaign :'D
Great mod!

I unfortunately don't seem to get the mod work, the start year is still 271BC and there are all the usual factions still in the faction selection screen, with some missing assets replaced by white boxes... I'm not running any other mods. Too bad, this looks like a really refreshing mod

I have tested this and It works with the WARS OF THE GODS-ANCIENT WARS overhaul. EPIC! You must load this mod above the WOTG mod.

@roxyfish also I'm italian. Sulla is he latin name of dictrator who we call silla. the same as ceaser who we call cesare. it is thi mod dei compatible?

@roxyfish I'm sure many people know that but the english translation is Sulla same thing happens all over history

real name was silla not sulla i am italian i know

Impressive

Is it possible for either Roman faction to form a confederation with the other once it becomes weak, becoming Rome as opposed to Marius/Sulla's Rome?

will you make someday a dei verion of it ? :)

thank you: we can finally play the last decades of the seleucid empire, reversing the trend and bringing it to dominate again the East ;)

I love this mod. I love historical mod reflecting other periods of Rome.

This is a GREAT idea MORE of this thinking refreshers RTW2 and adds depths.CA should be looking at this way forward,instead of revisiting past games.Let the modders who clearly love the game do their thing and give this game its full potential. THANK YOU to EURO- CENTRIC...

Hello PT8792: Try deactivating other mods you're using which modify campaign starting positions. That should fix your issue.

Crassus vs Spartacus on Rise of Republic Map???????

Honestly we need MORE of this.

decent mod fam can you do the same for Caesar?

Does this replace the grand campaign or IA campaign?

Great mod. Finally, Rome is a strong enemy to fight against. But as Pontus , I can't recruit swordsmen, they are only available as a general bodyguard for some reason. No bronze shield pikes, neither. I enjoyed my tiny Seleucid campaign, nice to make them great again. The only thing that bothered me, was the constant display of the Octavian movie from the Augustus campaign, after every battle. Could you cut it out, please?

if to get it to work with DEI it would be awesome

I love the historically accurate scenarios!!! I am also going to have to mention what many others are saying though, I do think that if you were to make a DEI version of this mod there would be exponentially more people playing this amazing mod. Anyways, I can't wait to dive even further into this mod!

Great mod thanks!
You think you could make it compatible for DEI?

Can I use this with DeI? I can't seem to get it to work.

This was a good mod

Looks good! my only recommendation is changing Marius Pompeii Blue to Antony White, because most ilustrations of this civil war show the red and white as predominant colors, anyway, nice period to ilustrate, will be Sertorius playable?

Thanks for making this!

Question for the author: why are Parthian Swordsmen missing from Pontus' roster? On that note, would it be possible to add in a unit of stronger infantry for Pontus to reflect the military reforms of Mithridates? Maybe Mithridatic Legionaries or something along those lines for some added historical flavor as well as a reflection of that nation's brief moment of power?

Great mod, must have for historic mod.Thank you.

Wow, I love this! There is currently so many untold stories that would make great scenarios. I know the time of a modder is constrained and unthankful, but it would be fantastic to see this and/or future scenarios to be set in DeI.

Absolutely love it! Plese make more of these scenarios .Great Mod.

Great background for a new mod! I always wished CA to develop Sulla mod with Sertorius, Mithridates of Pontus, Tigranes of Armenia and Hasmonean Judaea. Maybe Pompey, Crassus, Cinna, Carbo, Metellus Pius can be included?

Can you make a unified Roman Republic at 100 BC?

You should do it for the DEI mod, it could interest even more people.

What a pleasant surprise! The only think I don't like is that I want to play as Marius as the red Romans, lol. That's fine though, this is a really good starting point for the Roman campaign.